Whistleblower warns massive fraud is happening in Ohio Somali community, Minnesota ‘just tip of the spear’

FIRST ON FOX On the heels of Minnesota s still-unfolding massive social services fraud controversy a whistleblower is exposing a similar scheme occurring among the Ohio Somali neighborhood which she says dates back over a decade and totals millions in stolen taxpayer dollars In an interview with Fox News Digital Mehek Cooke an Ohio attorney and conservative commentator disclosed that Minnesota was just the tip of the spear She mentioned that providers within the Ohio Somali population have confided to her that they have been pressured to join in a massive Medicaid fraud scheme that involves doctors rubber stamping home robustness care payouts to the family members of elderly individuals for fake health conditions She explained that scammers in the district have been exploiting a loophole in Ohio s Medicaid scheme that allows individuals to receive Medicaid payments totaling as much as per year per individual for care they are supposedly providing to a family member Doctors who approve these payments in turn receive kickbacks themselves according to Cooke EXPERT REVEALS KEY FACTOR THAT LED TO MASSIVE MINNESOTA FRAUD SCHEME They're just rubberstamping a lot of these And then that same individual a week later that's supposed to be bedridden is all over social media whether they're out dancing at a party or something like that So the indicators aren't really adding up at the end of the day Cooke noted that she believes that the predicament in current times is not the society it's authentically the criminals within the Somalian group that have exploited Ohio's Medicaid project because we have a system right now that's one of the easiest in the Midwest to championship Say I want to take care of my elderly aging parents at chosen point I can become a home healthcare provider and this is where the Somali group has been really clever They've been able to find loopholes in Ohio law to provide for care for family members even when they don't need it Cooke explained NUTRITION ACTIVITY S LAWSUIT TRIGGERS MN DEVELOPMENT DEPT TO EASE OVERSIGHT OPENING DOOR TO MORE FRAUDShe reported that the providers who came to her divulged this information at great personal vulnerability telling her that if they were exposed they would be stoned to death We have entrusted states to look at the funding and to allocate it to build programs to build rules and regulations But unfortunately in states like Ohio it is being infiltrated and broken down because you don't in fact have independent assessments with not only doctors but somebody at the Department of Medicaid coming in There's not random visits that are happening all the time she revealed So a lot of times what's happening is an individual is coached to lie to a medical practitioner Cooke explained that according to providers within the society percent of the time individuals receiving the home soundness care Medicaid benefit have been coached and do not veritably qualify for the benefit What we're seeing in Minneapolis is just a snippet of what's happening in Ohio she reported MINNESOTA FRAUD SCHEME UNEARTHS MILLIONS IN LUXURY PROPERTY CARS DOJ I know that everybody wants to make this a Somali issue or a race issue It's not Our waiver system in Ohio was built with compassion It was built to really help individuals that are struggling and in need but it's being looted in the modern day Cooke went on I think every state in addition to Ohio should be asking for audits of their Medicaid system and their programs she commented adding At the end of the day Ohio taxpayers are hurting the American people are hurting and we don't have enough tax dollars